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Casinos
Ray Nagin now wants casino gambling in New Orleans, which seems to be a better idea than most. While that’s the best idea for revitalization to come along so far, it still does nothing about the fact that NOLA is between a lake, a river, and an ocean, which will forever make it geographically unsafe, no matter how many levees are in place.
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The other Moody Loner
I recently reviewed my technorati profile and noticed a link from Electronic Darwinism, whose proprietor also blogs as Moody Loner (I tend to use it as one word, with the M and L capitalized, whereas he has it as two distinct words.) I noticed he has a disambiguation section listing me and Moody Loner Records, which I thought was a fine idea, so I added a disambiguation section as well.
When doing the spell check for this post, the Blogger spell checker wanted to replace technorati” with “degenerate”.
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Now I’m done
I just got the holder for my bluescreen, and I’m now finally done buying photography stuff off of E-Bay. All I really need for my full digital studio is lights, and those are kind of pricey on e-bay anyway.
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Two good things
- This is an ad with lovely visuals
- Adobe Photoshop can be legally installed and activated on two computers.
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Life’s weirder moments
Snake bursts after gobbling gator – “The Burmese python tried to swallow its fearsome rival whole but then exploded.”
Worthy of a comic book.
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Weirdness
So, my computer is working again, with the old motherboard (GigaByte makes a tough one it seems), the new HSF (Zalman, very nice) and a quiet case fan, and for some reason the room is now around 3 degrees cooler than was with the prior setup. Very strange.
And I got the condenser mic. A full report tomorrow.
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Peculiar
So naturally I try to use the motherboard I thought I’d broken one more time, because this time, it just might work!
And for a while, it seems to work, it goes through a post and the whole deal. I finish reassembling everything and it refuses to boot into windows. It goes about halfway through the process and stalls.
I then am in the process of writing down the model number of the motherboard so I can exchange the new one I got last night for one with the proper socket when I notice the AGP card is a bit askew. I shove it back in a little bit and presto! It all works. So basically all of my effort was for nothing then. And it’s still noisy.
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Toil and trouble
First I break my motherboard trying to install a new heat-sink and fan, than the new one I get turns out to be a different socket type than the CPU. I really hate computers at the moment.
The new USB MIC comes today though
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Tuesday rapid fire
- S.F. mayor sees wireless service as basic right – Gavin Newsom is truly the most publicity-hungry mayor in America. A basic right? This makes me rather glad that we don’t have nationalized health care.
- Liquids per gallon – Hot Hooters Booby Oil is my favorite
- US finds fever bacteria during war protest weekend – This sees like it should be a bigger story.
- DOT frowns at U.S. 78 monitors – private industry stepping into help with a public problem, gets “frowned at” by government
- $100 Laptop – this could be really cool, if only it existed.
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I went back to Marginal Revolution, and came across this post, The Unreported Mexican Immigration Story which makes the point that Mexican immigration increases as Mexicans get rich enough to leave. Well worth reading.